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Apr 22, 20133 min read
Writing Blocked
All the anti-malware programs I had on my computer started fighting with each other last week and in the midst of the melee, nasty little...
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Apr 16, 20131 min read
Bonhoeffer's "This-worldiness" and the Imperative to Remain (as long as we can)
A friend sent me this early in the day of the Boston bombing--in other words, she wasn't telepathic, but somehow her passing this along...
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Apr 12, 20133 min read
American Cheese Pie
For the most part I’ve come to accept my guilty pleasures. I’m only a little bit ashamed that I rock out in the car when “Man, I Feel...
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Apr 5, 201311 min read
From Going Out, the memoir: Getting Them Married
This is from the memoir. Marriage isn't made or un-made in courts, but elsewhere.... I add my breath to your breath that our days may be...
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Mar 27, 20133 min read
The Rockport Transfer Station, Sept-Dec, 2010
At the Transfer Station At the transfer station, life begins again. The old becomes new. This is the truth. It’s like Isaiah, the old...
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Mar 24, 20132 min read
My Big, Fat Palm Sunday Egg of Me
I was many months pregnant with my first of two daughters when I found the house I wanted to buy on Palm Sunday two decades ago. I don't...
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Mar 21, 20131 min read
"Do You Have A Body? Don't Sit on the Porch!"
There are so many good poems that every time I sit down to try to write one, I find one I wish I had written. Besides, I'm not good at...
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Mar 9, 201312 min read
Cleaning Mr. Graber's House
This is my most-rejected short story. It has been rejected thirty-six times, which is a lot. It is a multiple of 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 9, 18 and...
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Mar 5, 20132 min read
Hearing Pictures at an Exhibition
When Russian composer Modest Mussorgsky's architect friend Viktor Hartmann died of an aneuryism in 1873, Mussorgsky felt compelled to pay...
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Feb 27, 20131 min read
We'll Shout and Go 'Round, Shout and Go 'Round
Oh, I wish I had written William Carlos Williams' wonderful poem, "The Dance." (See below.) It just makes you want to get up off your...
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Feb 23, 20133 min read
As Is
On the cover of this month's Yoga JournalI am promised many things: EIGHT building blocks for practicing at home, SIX best foods to fuel...
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Feb 16, 20133 min read
The Lamplighter
As light gives way to evening, I stand in my bedroom looking out across the Union College campus. The sun is setting almost in one color,...
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Feb 6, 20131 min read
Dipping into Falling Upward
So I'm not always a fan of spiritual writing because a lot of it is boring or irrelevant or just, I dunno, dumb, I guess. But I've only...
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Feb 3, 20131 min read
February 2nd, Candlemas
It is time to take the candles down, the window candles --golden-flickering, soft beacons in hard winter the house cold till I conjure...
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Jan 29, 20132 min read
My Cheese Pig
Sitting right there on my massive cutting board, tail erect, snout truffle-ready, ears extended, is not a marble pig or a soapstone pig...
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Jan 25, 20132 min read
One Must Have A Mind of Winter
A few years back, in some crazy attempt at reconciling myself to my most-hated season, I bought a book of poems call A Mind of Winter:...
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Jo Page
Jan 21, 20133 min read
The Pleasure Principle
Longing, we say, because desire is full of endless distances. --Robert Hass I sat in candlelight at my kitchen island eating dinner...
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Jan 13, 201311 min read
From the Memoir, Going Out
First Class Christians: Musings from Election Day, 2006, flying into Washington, DC with Charles Colson At the airport newsstand I pick...
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Jo Page
Jan 3, 20135 min read
Tchaikovsky and Women
The more I think about Tchaikovsky--and I already do, a lot--the more I come to believe he had an entirely preternatural understanding of...
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Dec 23, 20121 min read
Light in Darkness, Let Us Sing
Joel Cohen, Musical Director Emeritus of the marvelous early music ensemble, Boston Camarata, writes of their Renaissance Christmas...
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